Flashey, Annoying Boot up World Thingy featuring Finder and Question Mark

[G5Unit]

Long title. Anyways. When I start up my PM G5 I always get an icon of the world falshing in the middle of my screen. It saatys there for about 30 seconds then goes away. To take its place is a tiny folder the has a Question mark and a Qinder logo flashing on top of it. My computer works fine afterwards but it adds on like another minute to start up time. I am connecting via airport. Is that the problem?

 

[ITASOR]

I renamed my HD once...yeah I know...dumb thing to do....and it did that. I had to reformat the whole thing just to get it to work.

I think I win the prize for offering the solution of a clean install to anyone with a problem!

 

[G5Unit]

So I just change it back to Macintosh HD?

 

[XNine]

If it's the icon I'm thinking, you've changed your startup disk. Use your bootable OS X install disc, boot it up using the C key at the chime, and find the START UP VOLUME selection. Go into that and choose the hard drive with OS X on it. then restart.

 

[john1123]

If it's the icon I'm thinking, you've changed your startup disk. Use your bootable OS X install disc, boot it up using the C key at the chime, and find the START UP VOLUME selection. Go into that and choose the hard drive with OS X on it. then restart.

You can also select the start-up volume under System Prefs -> Startup Disk

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

Your computer doesn't know what to use for a startup disk, that's all. You can also seclect the volume to start with by holding option during boot.

 

[yellow]

Ditto.. the first thing you see (world icon) is the computer trying to do a NetBoot, when that fails, it's confused and looking for a startup volume (finder/folder/question mark), then it finds it and boots.

Following the advice to choose your boot disk as a startup volume should fix this.

 

[G5Unit]

I did that a long time ago too. I held down option and it took like 1 minute of my G5 powering the fans to the max. I clicked the HD logo with the X next to it. It did the same thing again.

 

[yellow]

I did that a long time ago too. I held down option and it took like 1 minute of my G5 powering the fans to the max. I clicked the HD logo with the X next to it. It did the same thing again.

Yeah.. mainly because that only choose the startup volume for that single boot. It takes a long time because all the buses have to be scanned for valid startup volumes.

You should be going to the Startup Disk prefpane in System Preferences.

 

[G5Unit]

Ok thanks. I'll do that whn I get home from school. lol.